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Marston Lynch; His Life and Times, His Friends and Enemies, His Victories and Defeats, His Kicks and Halfpence, a Personal Biography
Robert Barnabas Brough
Paperback. General Books LLC 2012-02-03.
ISBN 9781151213662
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... time, quite noiselessly. About thirty successive pushes were enough to bring the chair and its senseless burden to the bed side. Then our indomitable little friend flew back to the sitting room, and removed every trace of disorder with the skill and rapidity of a story-book fairy. She closed the door noiselessly; bolted it inside, and courageously faced the minor difficulty of getting Marston into bed. On entering upon this task she again reminds us of the nursery tales. But this time, instead of the benevolent and all-skilful fairy, she appears in the character of the witch's victim--commanded to make a rope of sand, to fetch water in a broken pitcher, or to catch a salmon in a net of cobwebs. Was the princess in the fairy tale ever daunted by the apparent impossibility of the task set for her to do? Do we not always see her set forth, pitcher in hand, to the work, with evident faith that some good power will intervene to make the crazy vessel watertight? Does she not quietly spin the cobwebs into threads, and sit down to knit it into meshes with a sad but trusting heart--never doubting but that some good-natured salmon will allow himself to be caught by the flimsy device. Lucy had brought her husband to the edge of the bed. She divested him of such clothing as she could manage (men's hard waistcoat buttons were terrible trying to her little fingers). She bathed his temples with Eau-deCologne; of course kissed him several times--as if that would do any good!--and waited patiently till the unwieldy ship she had undertaken to convey to the harbour of Bed should, by some process of lurching or tacking, facilitate her exertions. The wished-for occasion arrived; Marston suddenly started up and howled dismally. Exhausted by the brief paroxysm, he fell, with at
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